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Permabit Unveils New Albireo Edition for Big Data Environments
Permabit beefed up its OEM embedded dedupe solution with a new version of its flagship and a big partnership with Cibecs. Albireo, one of the fastest deduplication solutions on the market, is now available in a Data Protection Edition that’s designed to accommodate the “rampant data growth” in the enterprise and enhance “backup methods of ...
vFabric GemFire 7.0 Expands Support, Data Awareness
VMware just announced the latest version of its vFabric GemFire software, an in-memory management platform for data-driven mobile and web applications. The 7.0 release features a number of improvements over the previous version, including reduced latency – a vital property for transactional apps. Another new capability is parallel WAN processing, which allows users to deploy ...
Do You Have a Zombie Smartphone? BYOD Monster Mash
Mobile security firms Appthority and Fixmo released a new Halloween-themed infographic that sums up the scary state of BYOD in the enterprise using a few very colorful illustrations. The companies say over 50 percent of all Android users own zombie devices, which run on outdated versions of the operating system. There’s also the vampire app, ...
Google Apps Backup Startup Hires New Chief Revenue Officer to Boost Momentum
Spanning, a provider of cloud backup for cloud applications, announced that it appointed Jeff Erramouspe as its new CRO. The Austin-based startup is best known for its flagship product, Spanning Backup for Google Apps, the highest ranking service in this category on the Google Apps Marketplace. The firm has not released any specific numbers, but says ...
Consumerization of Analytics Arrives with Evolved Hadoop Systems
George Mathew, the President and Chief Operating Office of Alteryx, shared his take on big data with Dave Vellante in a recent Cube interview. Mathew’s first observation is that the whole analytics trend has come a very long way since his last appearance on theCube during SAP’s SAPphire 2010. Back then, he says, the community ...
EMC Falls Short on Revenue, but Services Business is Still Strong
EMC posted its third quarter earnings last week, which reflected the same weakening tren in corporate IT spending that hampered revenue for IBM and Microsoft for the same quarter. EMC earned a net income of $626.3 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with the $605.6 million and 27 cents a share it reported for ...
Meg Whitman’s New Printers Are a Big Step Forward for HP
Former eBay chief Meg Whitman has taken over the CEO of Hewlett-Packard with the goal of slowing down the decline initiated by two of her immediate predecessors. HP’s printer business is one of the several departments Whitman is trying to turn around. HP is the biggest printer vendor by shipments, but it has been lagging ...
SMB Services Market Looks “Rosy” Thanks to Cloud and Virtualization
More companies choose to outsource their IT operations, according to the experts who attended last week’s the N-able Partner Summit. Founder and president Gavin Garbutt said in his opening keynote that 10 to 20 percent of SMBs are using managed services, a percentage that he believes is on the rise. Bill Boisvenue, the president of ...
TCS Expands with New Data Center in India
Tata Consultancy Services, one of the largest tech firms in India, has plans to set up a new facility in the city of Indore. The cost of the undertaking will be around 550 crore, or about $100 million. According to The Hindu the new ‘integrated campus’ currently will span 1.5 million square feet once Phase ...
Nirvanix Offers Data Center Escape Route from Hurricane Sandy
Cloud storage startup Nirvanix is evacuating its New Jersey data center, or at least giving its customers the option to do so with their data. Users running in the Node 4 facility can choose to migrate their data to one of the company’s other locations in L.A, Dallas, Frankfurt, Germany or Tokyo. “During this natural ...